Rubicon Bezique. By "Cavendish." (De La Rue and Cc.)- Card-players
will be mach obliged to " Cavendiah " for this little book. The chief differences between the game described here and that commonly played, are that four packs are used, that "Carte Blanche" (a hand without a picture-card) may be shown and scores fifty, that the tramp sail is fixed by the first "marriage" made, that sequences may be made in plain suits, and that nine cards (instead of eight) are held in the hand. But why "Rubicon "7 some one will aak. If a player scores leas than a thousand, hie score is added to his antagonist's, instead of being deducted from it. But this is a peculiarity which may well be omitted. In fact, it does nothing but increase the gambling element in the game. A player (by obtaining "quadruple bezique" and other good things) may score as many as six thousand ; his adversary's score added to his own will make it up, say, to seven thousand, and then thirteen hundred is added for the game. This at sixpence a hundred (the stake which "Cavendish" suggests) comes to more than two pounds,—more than most people ought to risk.
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